Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Business Needs a Blog and Thesis

When it comes to premium blog themes that are easy to customize, the Thesis DIY theme is one of the best blog themes to use to promote your business.
Blogging is a necessary means to promote your business and attract new clientele on the web.
A blog is a place to get to know your clients. It gives your clients the opportunity to experience your organization in a more intimate setting. It can be used as an alternate source of communication to introduce new products and services, a place to dispel rumors or myths and finally a way to figure out what your clients like or dislike about your products or services..
Blogs are very effective. How do I know this you might ask? Because if it didn't work you wouldn't be reading this article right now would you?
There are many blog platforms that operate as content management systems:
* Google Blogger
* WordPress
* TypePad
* Tripod Lycos
* SquareSpace
I use WordPress as my content management system (CMS) because I find it to be one of the most flexible platforms with the most options. I don't host my blog through WordPress.org - instead I run WordPress as an application through my GoDaddy web-hosting plan.
With most blog platforms you have a choice of using one of their themes or you can upload your own theme. For those of you who don't know, (and we've all been there) a theme is what dictates the aesthetics or appearance and navigation of your blog.
There are many different tools on the web for creating and maintaining blogs however through much trial and error, I finally found a theme that made my blogging experience a whole heck of a lot easier.
If you spoke to my friends they would tell you what a Scrooge I am when it comes to spending money. I say this for this reason, "I tried out at least 58 or so free themes before I could finally take it no more and went into my tight little pockets and purchased the Thesis Theme". With other themes I spent hours trying to re-code, unscramble, rearrange and manipulate their workings while still ending up with a blog that looked like my daughter created it back when she was nine years old. I don't even want to get into the SEO part of it.
Since I installed the Thesis Theme, I haven't had to code anything so I have more time for writing. The blog that you are looking at right now has hardly had any aesthetic work put into it on my part. I am getting more visitors than I ever thought I would get and they are staying on my page (well that last part is probably due to my great articles - lol). This theme is by far the best WordPress theme on the market and that's why I use it.

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